General ⇒ Problems with Second Compile

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Hi ~ I hope someone can help me. I'm working on a large volume of material that a new style package was written for (donsfile). A command for a .mrk file to be created was inputted in this file. I think there is an error because the .mrk file will fill up amazingly fast and incapacitate the second compile because of its size (sometimes over 10,000 kb in a few seconds). So I stop the build and have to delete the .mrk file. This happens consistently. The author is not available and seems to think some of the work I have converted into LaTeX is to blame for the error. When I compile small portions of the work, I can get it to compile pretty seamlessly, but when I add all the parts, once again it basically crashes and won't compile the second time, so my table of contents, list of figures, etc. are not all complete. The .mrk file was added with these lines in the style file:
\InputIfFileExists{\jobname .mrk}{}{}%
\newoutputstream{marking}
\openoutputfile{\jobname .mrk}{marking}

and I have attached a bit of the text in the .mrk file. It shows it speeding along, thinking there are thousands of pages in the text (there are over 200). The bare bones of what I'm using is:
\documentclass[12pt,oneside,usenames]{book}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{donsfile}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage{deluxetable,deluxetablemod}
\usepackage{epspdfconversion}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicxsp}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{robustindex}
\usepackage[dotinlabels]{titletoc}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[toc,acronym,numberline]{glossaries}

This is the only thing I've encountered a .mrk file for; I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.
Thank you,
Linda